Today Hudson is 6. He’s still my cuddlebug. My lil’ dude that still gives me kisses everyday before he gets out of the car at school. He still walks up to me for no reason and tells me he loves me. He sits by me on the couch and puts his head on my lap. He still wants me to scratch his back at night when he needs help falling asleep. He still tells me he wants to marry me.  He’s still my baby….even if there is another baby a wee younger than he.  He was my baby for 5 years so I don’t know that I’ve quite let go of that yet.

But today….he is 6.  He’s over half way to 10….double digits.

I feel like he got a bit cheated today. It was a crazy day. I had a shoot after school so even though I was at his school to take in treats for his class I wasn’t here when he got off the bus and that bothered me. But I was here w/in 30 minutes and he was fine.  He played with his buddies for a while and then we headed out to La Hacienda for dinner. We always let them chose where they want to eat and my kids are rockstars when it comes to picking dinner. We aren’t hanging at McDonalds for bday dinners. No they are picking places like Johnny Carinos, Macaroni Grill or La Hacienda. Works for me!

When we made it home from dinner he finally opened his presents and it was nearly 7:30pm so I let him stay up until after 9pm, which I’m sure I will regret in the morning when he doesn’t want to get his happy little hiney out of bed.  But I will try to remember his sweet kiss goodnight tonight, when he whispered to me that he loved me more than his new roboraptor.  What more could I ask for?

Here are a couple shots courtesy of Mark……obviously not the photographer of the family.

I miss my 5 year old already. 

I love this dude. love him.

Happy birthday lil’ man. You are my heart, soul and the one of three reasons I wake up every single day and thank God for the honor and gift of being alive and well…and for being given the privilege of being your mommy.